#App Posts

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Interfaces that have animations and transitions provide a better UX for app users, and stimulate user engagement. It’s becoming increasingly important to understand how to add motion to your designs, which is why we wrote today’s tutorial.

In it, Toptal Design Editor Tidjane Tall demonstrates how to craft effective UI animation techniques, using Principle for Mac, in a series of short videos.

Designing across cultural boundaries has broader implications and more challenges than Google Translate can solve. Designers must consider not just language differences, but also cultural tendencies, values, and taboos.

In this article, Toptal designer Jônatas Vieira gives us the tools to navigate cultural boundaries and shows us one of his own projects that taught him the value of cross-cultural design.

Designing an app that stands the test of time is no easy feat. Only 3% of apps are still in use a month after being downloaded. What are some of the most common mistakes that designers are making to discourage so many users?

In this post, Toptal Design Editor Kent Mundle outlines the Top 10 most common mistakes in app design, and explains what designers can do to fix them.